Congo - deepest, darkest Africa

[Peter1469]

The US, with Malice afore thought, destroyed the Congo when the US destroyed Katanga, and subsequent misdeeds.
Same goes with them creating Ebola and spreading it.

Don't forget HIV

[Brett Nortje]

If the west was to investigate african media, they might find things are because of america robbing them of their wealth. this is because there was peace a while ago, back in the seventies there were few wars in africa - it might be a ripple effect of the second world war though, yes? i mean, if the war had effects on africa, they all took sides expecting the arrival of hitler by land to a place that was not a satellite of the west, where the war was not observed. so we had a lot of africans seeing news from their nieghbors, who were with hitler from fear, and a lot of western media from usual sources too - they must have lost their minds!

Anyway, most of these wars are like 'getting the other guys back' for old wars. this goes to show that these wars canbe prevented by preaching tolerance and turning the other cheek, yes? this is because there is a grudge between tribes and denominations and cultures of africans in the same country. if they were to observe a gun is an instrument of death, poverty introduction and destruction, while a pen held by the right person will make lasting treaties, and, a gavel in the hands of the leaders will bring forth life and finally where the hammer will bring forth food and education and society rising above these things, then they can, instead of gloating over the fallen of their enemies and eating nothing, forgiving those that have done wrong and burying the dead to rest in peace, while reaping the fruit of the earth.

[donttread]

OK, now they've done it! Lets nuke em ! They're cutting in on our arms dealing action. It all makes sense now . Plus the Congo is clearing capable of invasions now that they have better.... side arms!

Could NK cutting in our arms dealing action be part of our sudden obsession with the nukes they've had forever and the launching systems they've been working on openly for years? Hummm?

[waltky]

Congo displacement crisis 'worse than Middle East...

DR Congo displacement crisis 'worse than Middle East'
Dec. 6,`17 - Conflict has forced 1.7 million people to flee their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year, causing "a mega-crisis", aid agencies say.

This means that for the second consecutive year, DR Congo is worst-affected by conflict displacement in the world, the agencies add. DR Congo has been hit by years of instability, with rival militias fighting for control of territory. The conflict has been worsened by the failure to hold elections last year. "It's a mega-crisis. The scale of people fleeing violence is off the charts, outpacing Syria, Yemen and Iraq," the Norwegian Refugee Council's DR Congo director, Ulrika Blom, said. In a new report, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre said that an average of 5,500 people fled their homes every day this year. The reasons include new armed conflicts, a rise in existing conflicts and the delay in holding elections, the report said.

More than seven million people are struggling to feed themselves, aid workers say

Despite there being four million displaced people, as well as more than seven million struggling to feed themselves, international aid has been slow to materialise, Ms Blom said. "If we fail to step up now, mass hunger will spread and people will die. We are in a race against time," she warned. DR Congo's Minister of Information, Lambert Mende, has however disputed the aid agencies' report, saying that the number of the displaced people is "less than one million". He told BBC's Focus on Africa programme that the displaced people were, contrary to the report, returning home from neighbouring countries.

World has neglected DR Congo

The number of displaced people is shocking - even if it is disputed by the government. Local conflicts in several parts of the country - in particular the new crisis in the greater Kasai area - are all rumbling on as a gruesome backdrop to the national crisis over elections and whether President Joseph Kabila will leave power. The world hasn't been paying much attention. In part this is because these are difficult places to report from, and news agencies and TV channels with global reach don't have many correspondents in the country. Rightly or wrongly, DR Congo is not considered to have the same global strategic significance as, say, Syria.

Many parts of DR Congo are lawless

DR Congo is a vast country with immense economic resources, but years of conflict have led to most people living in poverty, and there is little infrastructure. President Joseph Kabila took power in 2001 following the assassination of his father, Laurent Kabila. He has won two elections and the constitution bars him from running for a third term. Mr Kabila's critics say the poll has been delayed so that he can remain in office. Mr Kabila's government has been battling new conflicts in the last year, including in the central Kasai region where violence broke out after the government refused to recognise a traditional chief. At least 400 people have been killed in the conflict in the region, which is regarded as an opposition stronghold.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42250230

[donttread]

The truth no one wants to admit that Africa is $#@!ed.

[waltky]

UN troops ambushed in The Congo...

Rebels kill 14 peacekeepers in Congo in worst attack on U.N. in recent history
December 8, 2017 - Rebels killed at least 14 U.N. peacekeepers and wounded 53 others in Congo and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday the attack that targeted troops from Tanzania was the worst in recent history.

Guterres said the raid in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo constituted a war crime and he called on Congolese authorities to investigate and “swiftly bring the perpetrators to justice”. “I want to express my outrage and utter heartbreak at last night’s attack,” Guterres told reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York. Three other peacekeepers are missing after a three-hour firefight that broke out at dusk on Thursday evening, said Ian Sinclair, the director of the U.N. Operations and Crisis Centre. Suspected militants from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) staged the assault on a base for Congo’s U.N. mission (MONUSCO) in the town of Semuliki, the mission said.

The ADF is an Islamist rebel group from across the border in Uganda, who has been active in the area. MONUSCO said it was coordinating a joint response with the Congolese army and evacuating wounded from the base in North Kivu’s Beni territory. Five Congolese soldiers were also killed in the raid, MONUSCO said in a statement. Rival militia groups control parts of mineral-rich eastern Congo nearly a decade and a half after the official end of a 1998-2003 war that killed millions of people, most of whom died from hunger and disease. The area has been the scene of repeated massacres and at least 26 people died in an ambush in October.

The government and U.N. mission have blamed almost all the violence on the ADF but U.N. experts and independent analysts say other militia and elements of Congo’s army have also been involved. Increased militia activity in the east and center of the country and a series of prison breaks have fueled mounting insecurity in Congo this year amid political tensions linked to President Joseph Kabila’s refusal to step down when his mandate expired last December. An election to replace Kabila, who has ruled Congo since his father’s assassination in 2001, has been repeatedly delayed and is now scheduled for December 2018.

Established in 2010, MONUSCO is the United Nations’ largest peacekeeping mission and had recorded 93 fatalities of military, police and civilian personnel. The death toll for the attack varied. A spokesman for Congo’s army, Mak Hazukay, said only one Congolese soldier was missing after the fighting and one had been injured, adding that 72 militants had been killed. Guterres said most of the peacekeepers were from Tanzania. Tanzania’s defense minister declined to comment.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-c...-idUSKBN1E21YK

[waltky]

Protests over Kabila's refusal to step down from power...

DRC: At Least Two Dead in Anti-Kabila Protests
December 31, 2017 - At least two civilians have been killed as violence erupted ahead of protests in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday.

Police fired shots and tear gas to break up a Catholic mass and arrested altar boys who were among protesters gathering at the church to rally against President Joseph Kabila.

Congolese protest against President Joseph Kabila's refusal to step down from power in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Ida Sawyer, Central Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said two men had been killed outside the church. The French news agency, AFP, reported that an officer and a youth in the suburbs of Kinshasa were also killed.

The DRC has been mired in a political crisis over Kabila's refusal to step down from power. His second and last term as president ended in December 2016. New elections slated for 2017 have been delayed for at least one more year, fueling anger among Congolese militias and citizens.

https://www.voanews.com/a/drc-at-lea...s/4186518.html

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Congo reports suspect arrested in killing of 2 UN experts
Dec. 30, 2017 -- The suspected mastermind behind killing two United Nations experts in the Democratic Republic of Congo was arrested Saturday, according to authorities.

Congolese authorities said the man arrested, Constantin Tshidime Bulabula, is behind the slaying of Michael Sharp, of the United States, and Zaida Catalan, of Sweden, working with the U.N. mission to the DRC. The two were last seen March 12 while investigating human rights abuses in the remote village of Bunkonde.

The bodies of United Nations workers, found in the Democratic Republic of Congo, were confirmed to be those of Zaida Catalan, left, and Michael Sharp, who were reported missing on March 12.

Catalan and Sharp were part of a mission known as the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of Congo, responsible for monitoring insurgent groups in the eastern part of the country. Their bodies were found 15 days later. Catalan had been decapitated. According to a military spokesman, Tshidime Bulabula is chief of a town south of where the killings took place. He was taken into custody about 60 miles from his home, and has since been taken to Kananga along with another suspect, Tresor Mputu.

Human rights groups have suspected the government played a role in the killings and a UN inquiry in August could not rule out government involvement. The Congolese army denies involvement, saying the executioners are members of the Kamwina Nsapu militia. Authorities say Bulabula is a member of the militia, which has been in war with Congolese security forces since mid-2016 after the death of its leader. Since then, about 5,000 people have died in the fighting and the UN identified mass graves across the province.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-N...&utm_medium=10